On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 7:24 AM, clive <clive_lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Ideally you want the document to print with the least amount of click or > without having to open up 3rd party applications, would it be possible for > the server to print to documents, I have done something like this before on > a windows machine. > > > Clive > > Paul M Foster wrote: > >> I'd like a side check on what I'm doing to print on our internal >> network. >> >> We have an internal server/site which uses PHP code I've written to >> "run" the business-- invoicing, A/P, inventory, etc. Some things, like >> invoices and reports, need to be printed. Now remember, the code is on >> the server, and we access it from our client machines on our desks. When >> we print, we do so to our local printers, attached to the client >> machines. >> >> So the best way I could think of to making printing work was to generate >> PDFs of whatever needs to be printed, dump the PDF on the server, and >> provide a link to the PDF on the web page. The user clicks on the >> generated PDF, and his/her browser opens up Acrobat or xpdf, and prints >> from that application to their local machine. >> >> Is that a reasonable way to implement this? Any better ideas? >> >> Paul >> >> >> > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > We used a windows only extension to print from PHP at my last job. Might want to take a look into that. http://us2.php.net/manual/en/book.printer.php -- Kyle Terry | www.kyleterry.com
